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Underwater gardens that rival the gardens of land dwellers

Flowers but animal
Above the deserts they called coral

Today was a day in mid-August, and the year was just before World War II.

The place we were in was Hurghada, that small village on the western coast of the Red Sea, where the Faculty of Science at Cairo University had established a biology research station there years before.

The morning I remember was a bright, sunny morning. We boarded one of the station’s boats to go to the most beautiful things in it. Something in which other than the world sees apparent beauty and admires it, and in which the world sees apparent beauty, and another is hidden, and the hidden is greater in admiration.

The boat was not like the boats we used to know. Its bottom was made of glass, allowing the viewer to see what was beneath him in the water and the boat moving above it.

- Land gardens and sea gardens

Earth's gardens have well-known shapes and are diverse.
Its shapes and flowers are limited.
The gardens of this water were of limitless forms, sometimes containing art and sometimes other than art: I mean that departure to which chance leads. But it is not a stupid coincidence.

It is a coincidence governed at its origins by fixed and unchanging laws of life.

The earth's gardens have well-known colors.
The gardens of this water were colorful, like the colors of gardens
The earth has shades and shadows.

And the gardens of the earth bear the colors of flowers, on a carpet
From green.

And the gardens of this water carry the colors of every embodied body
In which . The carpet is blue, which is the blue of water. The bodies were different, and the colors were different. Including the bright white, as if it were the forehead of a poplar.

The gardens of the earth accustomed us to looking at colors combined, so we became accustomed to them, and called them harmonious, for no other reason than that through learning, the meaning of consistency was born to us.
These sea gardens made their colors arbitrarily. So how did she achieve all this consistency?!

We had fun looking down, at the water across
The bottom, the bottom of the boat, and the morning sun illuminates it, illuminating these gardens, so they shine with beauty as the gardens of the earth shine.

- Coral reefs

They are coral reefs, and when you look at them, you think that they are rocks in the ground that have branched out like trees, with strange shapes and colors. Visitors cut off branches and twigs and carry them to their homes. They are nothing but rocks. Then they quickly lose their colors, and only their admiring shape remains.

(Living coral rock, of the type Tavites, as seen by the eye in sunlight)